Arts

May

August

Gunyah :: Melody Popple

3 Aug - 15 Sep 2019
Lismore

Gunyah is a performance artwork that explores concepts of belonging to the natural environment as well as the personification of an innate feminine presence within (more)

Gunyah is a performance artwork that explores concepts of belonging to the natural environment as well as the personification of an innate feminine presence within the Australian landscape. Unveiling the interplay of her Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage, Melody uses the art making process as a way to understand current feminine cultural identities and connections to Country, manifested as intuitive expressions of collaborative dance, site specific installation, ochre painting, natural dying/eco-printing, film production and the shared therapeutic experience.

The creation of Gunyah allowed Melody, as well as the other creative contributors involved, to look inward and reflect on the natural beauty in this world that must be celebrated and protected. Experienced as a return to one's natural home, the artistic process has allowed barriers surrounding perceptions of feminine identity to be reinvented in this ever shifting Australian cultural paradigm.

Featuring artists working across installation, video, performance, sculpture, painting and textiles each artist attends to their private idol with idiosyncratic intent and treats them with a respectful recognition of something perceived to be greater than the self.

The Dark Sublime :: Emma Walker

Intricate and far-reaching networks of communication and exchange occur beneath our feet. Worlds of relationship, chatter, barter and life, hidden in the dark cavities of soil under our lawns and roads. Invisible to the eye, like love and fear, the inter-woven ecosystems in our forests and the natural world, echo the unseen connections that bind us all.

The Dark Sublime, is an ode to the shadowed beauty and crucial relevance of forests and what lies beneath the surface.

Emma Walker is a Northern Rivers based artist. Her abstracted landscapes are multi-layered, and as much about the medium of paint and the process of painting as with an experience of nature. They explore the connections between the natural world, memory and the subconscious through texture and the interplay of light and dark.

September

Gunyah :: Melody Popple

3 Aug - 15 Sep 2019
Lismore

Gunyah is a performance artwork that explores concepts of belonging to the natural environment as well as the personification of an innate feminine presence within (more)

Gunyah is a performance artwork that explores concepts of belonging to the natural environment as well as the personification of an innate feminine presence within the Australian landscape. Unveiling the interplay of her Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage, Melody uses the art making process as a way to understand current feminine cultural identities and connections to Country, manifested as intuitive expressions of collaborative dance, site specific installation, ochre painting, natural dying/eco-printing, film production and the shared therapeutic experience.

The creation of Gunyah allowed Melody, as well as the other creative contributors involved, to look inward and reflect on the natural beauty in this world that must be celebrated and protected. Experienced as a return to one's natural home, the artistic process has allowed barriers surrounding perceptions of feminine identity to be reinvented in this ever shifting Australian cultural paradigm.

Featuring artists working across installation, video, performance, sculpture, painting and textiles each artist attends to their private idol with idiosyncratic intent and treats them with a respectful recognition of something perceived to be greater than the self.

The Dark Sublime :: Emma Walker

Intricate and far-reaching networks of communication and exchange occur beneath our feet. Worlds of relationship, chatter, barter and life, hidden in the dark cavities of soil under our lawns and roads. Invisible to the eye, like love and fear, the inter-woven ecosystems in our forests and the natural world, echo the unseen connections that bind us all.

The Dark Sublime, is an ode to the shadowed beauty and crucial relevance of forests and what lies beneath the surface.

Emma Walker is a Northern Rivers based artist. Her abstracted landscapes are multi-layered, and as much about the medium of paint and the process of painting as with an experience of nature. They explore the connections between the natural world, memory and the subconscious through texture and the interplay of light and dark.

Lismore Art Club's 59th Annual Art Exhibition

6-17 Sep 2019
North Lismore

Lismore Art Club inc. is celebrating its 59th Annual Art Exhibition, where LAC members will showcase their visual Art. As usual the pupils of Wilson Park Special (more)

Lismore Art Club inc. is celebrating its 59th Annual Art Exhibition, where LAC members will showcase their visual Art. As usual the pupils of Wilson Park Special School will display their artworks as part of the members exhibition and a donation will be made to the school in appreciation of the wonderful work they do.

Come join us with family and friends for a drink and refreshments, on both the opening night and Peoples Choice Awards presentation, or every day of the exhibition.

Comes from the shadow :: Jumaadi

14 Sep - 17 Oct 2019
Lismore

‘My works attempt to become the shadow, or perhaps they originated from shadow. They are often about birth, love and death, where displacement, isolation, (more)

‘My works attempt to become the shadow, or perhaps they originated from shadow. They are often about birth, love and death, where displacement, isolation, connectivity and separation are emphasised.’ JUMAADI

Jumaadi’s exhibition, Comes from the shadow, brings together a collection of works that are about birth and death. Life is there too, frail and fluid between these absolutes. The artist’s reference to “shadow” is metaphoric, through his exploration of the struggles of human existence, but it is also literal. One of his major influences is the Indonesian art of shadow theatre, or wayang kulit. Although there is darkness in the work, this is constantly offset by light, whimsy and humour. Jumaadi’s art is never about one thing. His iconography is endlessly evocative, seeming to embody one thing and its opposite all at once. Comes from the shadow is the epitome of this space of suspension, highlighting the relationship between opposites, and the confronting closeness of life and death.

Spinning workshop

16 Sep 2019
Nimbin

This Fibre Arts workshop is held every 3rd Monday of the month and focuses on spinning wheels, fine fibres, locally grown organic cotton, silk and cashmere. Drop (more)

This Fibre Arts workshop is held every 3rd Monday of the month and focuses on spinning wheels, fine fibres, locally grown organic cotton, silk and cashmere. Drop spindles and spinning wheels available or bring your own. For bookings please text.